GISELLE

In the organizer's words:

Choreography Peter Wright (after Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa). Music by Adolphe Adam, Friedrich Burgmüller and Riccardo Drigo.
Ballet phantastique in two acts - 1841 / 1966 / 1974

A seemingly idyllic, rural village life by day and, parallel to this, an eerie dance of ghosts at night: these two realities characterize the events on stage in Giselle. The choreographer Peter Wright rehearsed his 1966 version for the Württembergische Staatstheater in Stuttgart with the Munich company in 1974, following the tradition of the classical step material by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa. Peter Wright was not interested in reconstructing the original from 1841, but in adapting the staging and choreography to the technique of today's dancers. The result is a Giselle that, on the one hand, is completely committed to the spirit of Romanticism and, on the other, emphasizes the acting skills and virtuosity of classical ballet.

Giselle is a young girl who first falls in love, then falls into madness and finally turns into a "Wili". The plot of the ballet is based on a text by Heinrich Heine, who recounts the legend of these nocturnal elemental spirits as follows: "The Wilis are brides who died before the wedding. The poor young creatures cannot lie quietly in their graves; in their dead hearts, in their dead feet, there still remains that desire to dance which they could not satisfy in life, and at midnight they rise up, gather in troops along the military roads, and woe betide the young person who meets them there! He must dance with them, they embrace him with unbridled rage, and he dances with them, without rest or respite, until he falls down dead."

CAST:

Choreography after Coralli/Perrot/Petipa: Peter Wright

Libretto: Théophile Gautier, Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges

Music: Adolphe Adam, Friedrich Burgmüller, Riccardo Drigo

Stage and costumes: Peter Farmer

Musical direction: Andrea Quinn

Giselle: Ksenia Shevtsova

Albrecht, Duke in Franconia: Julian MacKay

Hilarion: Florian Ulrich Sollfrank

Berthe, Giselle's mother: Severine Ferrolier

Duke of Courland: Alexey Dobikov

Bathilde, his daughter: Elisa Mestres

Wilfried, Albrecht's confidant: Matteo Dilaghi

Hunter leader: Zoltan Mano Beke

Pas de six solo lady: Carollina Bastos

Pas de six solo gentleman: Ariel Merkuri

Myrtha: Elvina Ibraimova

Moyna: Maria Chiara Bono

Zulme: Phoebe Schembri

Ensemble of the Bavarian State Ballet

Bavarian State Orchestra

Price information:

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